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Dude, Seriously, Get Your ASK in Gear!
Lead, ASK, Succeed

by Susan P. Ascher

Due out this summer, Susan’s second book is a “must read” on developing leadership skills. Whether you are an executive leading a team, a professional leading your client, or a parent or relative leading the family, this book will help you be a better leader.

More details to come on the book. Learn more about Susan at SusanAscher.com.

Natasha Scott, author of The College Admissions Bible: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know about Applying to College (published by Woodpecker Press, 2013), will be the featured speaker at Watchung Booksellers on May 7, 2014.

This 24-year-old Magna Cum Laude Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania will provide insider tips and tricks that students can use when applying to college. Natasha will be happy to field questions at the end of her talk.

Her book is ideal for high school freshmen or graduating eighth graders. They will use the book throughout their high school years.

Brenda Hendrickson, CSA, author of How To Be A Frugal Millionaire: Eight Simple Steps to Creating Personal Wealth, was recently featured in North Jersey Woman Magazine, the newest publication in the Vicinity Media Group family. Featuring editorial, health and wellness tips, interviews with North Jersey’s best and brightest women, and more, North Jersey Woman truly is a magazine for North Jersey’s women.

Brenda is a published author, a tax specialist, a Quick Books pro advisor, accountant, and certified senior advisor (CSA) with a Certificate in Financial Planning. Since the book was first published, Brenda has held numerous book signings and is a keynote speaker at organizations, associations, and colleges. She has received testimonials on how her strategies have enabled her readership to accumulate wealth.

Brenda Hendrickson, CSA, author of How To Be A Frugal Millionaire: Eight Simple Steps to Creating Personal Wealth, recently spoke with WGLS radio. Brenda discussed the following tips:

• Turn a negative money attitude into a positive, money-making attitude
• Make the highly effective habits of a frugal millionaire your own
• Implement simple, yet powerful strategies anyone can practice
• Create the next generation of frugal millionaires

To hear the interview, which aired on WGLS radio’s “A Community Affair” show, CLICK HERE.

Brenda is a published author, a tax specialist, a Quick Books pro advisor, accountant, and certified senior advisor (CSA) with a Certificate in Financial Planning. Since the book was first published, Brenda has held numerous book signings and is a keynote speaker at organizations, associations, and colleges. She has received testimonials on how her strategies have enabled her readership to accumulate wealth.

The CSA designation was created to meet a unique need in the marketplace—knowledge about the health, social, and financial issues of aging that are important to the majority of seniors, so that professionals who serve seniors can do so in a more competent, ethical, and effective manner.

Reneé Gatz, author of Wise Words & Witty Expressions, will be a guest speaker at the November 15 Educational Conference of the Middlesex County Association of REALTORS®. The event will be held at the Robert B. Meyner Reception Center at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey.

Reneé’s presentation, “Follow Your Inner Voice and Be Patient with Where It Takes You,” will be tailored for realtors to inspire them, both professionally and personally, based on the words of wisdom that can be found in her book.

Wise Words & Witty Expressions (Woodpecker Press, 2009) is a collection of expressions Reneé heard repeatedly throughout her growing years from her Irish American mother. They taught her how to keep life in perspective, stay true to herself, remind her of what is important, and to laugh at foolishness so as not to take life too seriously.

Woodpecker Press Author, Natasha Scott, a 23-year-old Magna Cum Laude
Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has written a book to help high school students through the college admissions process. “The College Admissions Bible: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know about Applying to College” is designed to be used by students throughout their four years of high school.

Parents of high school freshmen would benefit from meeting the author and picking up a copy of the book for their high school students. The College Admissions Bible is a comprehensive yet handy guidebook that finally simplifies the overwhelming college admissions process!

In the interview, Renee discusses her book as well as the writing process, self-publishing versus traditional publishing, marketing, social media, and the importance of being able to connect with your audience.